On 23.03.2018 00:08, Chris Lamb wrote: > tags 893702 - patch > thanks > > Hi Matthias, > >> pdftk still still depends on GCJ, and is likely to be removed when gcj is >> removed. Please stop build-depending on pdftk. > > We build-depend on pdftk because we actually use it to compare files, > so unfortunately simply dropping it from the Build-Depends is not a > sufficient patch.
Another package suggested pyPDF as an alternative. I didn't look if that's feasable for diffoscope as well. There's also a pdftk port to OpenJDK mentioned in one of the pdftk bugs, but that doesn't yet look very mature.
